The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-07
sllly. Romantic Hss.dsns.

"You common folk Know nothing
about alteration, cried popular act
ress the other day. If you want to
be incunbered. swathed about, a. il
were, with undying devotion. you must
go upon the stage. The alteration will
come mostly from young girls under
Is, 1t is true, bat then what matter
where one gets ones sweets so that
they are an assured quality
Baltimore is particularly notable
for loYelOrn maidens of this type, and
have had a. many as dozen letters
. day from them.
what do they wante To see me, to
kiss me, to look at met They send me
fruit and flowers. bon-bons and books,
and they come up here and positively
walk into my room. ] very naturally
say. I don't know you. Who are yonp
What do you want? For heavens sakS
go away positively turn them out.
Then, after time, there comes anoth-
er knock 1t the door. i look out eau
tiously.
'' .Ah,' they say, my dear Mrs,
just let US see You minute. 0. DO,
do, do!' Then say Nor very fatty.
Well, then, let Us just kiss your hand.
Please put your hand through the door.
and wen kiss it and go right away
As I'm not particular about being =
party to such idiocy 1 persist in my re-
fusAl. I'm sure can't imagine what
they mean by it Il makes me blush
for womankind., wonder why their
mothers don't give them something 70
keep them busy and prevent them from
making such horrible fools of them
selves They become positively maud
lin for want of something to do or some
reasonable object to centre their sur
plus ardeTicy upon. And then the inn
pudenee Of them:
The other night l came out of my
dressing-room after the evenings per-
Torrance, anu found pale-faced girl
standing there. as lynx-eyed as
Sheriff. AS soon as she saw ME she
ran up and caught hold of me and said:
q, please, Mrs. -, can't ! ride hOnle
with you in your carriage?'
"'Why, certainly not, replied. She
didn't seem at all abashed. but looked
at me patronizingiy and said:
% i just wanted To tell you felt
sort OF pity for yuiI.'
- Pity for me, | gasped, my poor
tlGtAG%CIlI1N CilCES - F-sUOU IN the mouse.
think you had better go home and
pray to be like me- | suppose the
ridiculous infant had conjured up the
idea that her artless sympathy would
be u great beneficence.
Another annoyance which every
actress is subjected to is the treatment
Of the mob which waits about the
theatre doors. English MODS have
some features which are more terrible
than American MODS. They are really
more dangerous but not So impudent
as American crowds.
Once, when l got out of nv car
riage in London to go into the theater
there was d very iIl-natured mob about
the doors, and one hideous old woman
hit me violently across the back with
her umbrella and leered friyhtful
face up at me.
- do you think YOU re a lovely wo-
man., she shrieked.
% No. said /. Il don't. Do vou?'
The crowd stopped grumbling and be-
gan laughing. It's easy enough to
deal with an English mob if one only
knows the wax to do it.
Here the crowds are mostly made
up of young boys, and they are incor-
rigible and shout the most dreadful
things after one. There seems 10 be
no effort TO stop them at all 1t is like
eaceunteriug shot and shell 10 20 from
tie thcater to the carriage